Avril Vent Fleur

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Avril Vent Fleur
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IC Information
Full Name: Avril Vent Fleur
Nickname Avril
Gender: Female
Age (Birthdate): Looks about 20. Maybe?
Hometown: ???
Hair Colour: Silver
Class: Johnny Appleseed?
Role: Drifter
Bounty: 1,000,000,000 Gella
OOC Information
Theme: Wild Arms 5
Groups: Wayside Outreach
Player: Shrimpy
Fun Information
ARM: Absolute Zero
Favorite Food: She doesn't remember
Least Favorite Food: She doesn't remember
Dominant Hand: Right
Hobbies: She doesn't remember
Good With: Machinery, ancient technology
Bad With: Dark places
Soundtrack: YouTube

"Promises must not be broken so casually. Promises must be kept."

The girl who fell from the sky, cradled in the immense hand of a Golem and carrying with her a pair of impossibly advanced ARMs... and headed east to discover the truth behind a name. As it has always been, Avril Vent Fleur's existence is one defined by mysteries since Dean Stark and Rebecca Streisand found her, but now there is at least one mystery less: she is apparently 'Johnny Appleseed', the leader of the Veruni. Where one mystery is resolved others are born, however; torn now between a sense of obligation and the understanding that her lost memories make fulfilling such obligation unwise if not impossible, Avril continues onward in search of understanding fully who she was and what role now awaits her. Kindhearted and serene regardless of whatever she may face, Avril is nonetheless as pragmatic and painfully direct as the blade she bears, a factor continuously tempered by those with which she travels. However, her seeming role of lost Veruni ruler and prodigious talents makes her of extreme interest to certain powers that be... and her people, it seems, who would rather their leader return home. By any means necessary.

Background

A girl found in the hand of a Golem without her memory, who set out on a journey to discover who she was and find the person named 'Johnny Appleseed' with the people who found her.

As it turns out, both these quests have more or less come to the same end: she is Johnny Appleseed, the lost ruler of the Veruni.
And as long as someone like Volsung seeks to restore her to her throne, she, still lacking her memories, has opted to flee such responsibilities -- without understanding herself and her past, she feels, she will only become a pawn. Only the current freedom afforded to her permits her to better understand who she was and what she must now do.

Thus hiding from Veruni and others alike, she continues to search for clues to what she cannot remember...

And been forced again and again to contemplate the monster known as herself.

Developments - Chapter 1, Act 1

  • After crashing into Celestial Peak and being found by Dean and Rebecca, Avril sets off on a journey about eastern Ignas. This takes the lot of them around to several cities and locations, but it's in Mirapulse that they run into a situation where a young Golem Hunter was being accused of the theft of an important ritual mirror. To make matters worse, the accusation had been leveled by the rare Veruni visitor and it was clear that the young man was in danger of being executed. They tracked down Elvis and retrieved the mirror, but it was still seemingly too late-- until Avril, the mirror in hand, leveled a threat at the Veruni visitor and forced them to leave. (OOC: don't look for logs on this, it's all pre-app)
  • They were not present for the Metal Demon invasion of Adlehyde.
  • A while after the attack, they visited Gounon and delivered some wine to the nearby shrine, only for Avril to become sealed inside it. With the help of others such as Noeline and Riesenlied, she was able to escape, but it seems there is something more to her existence...
  • She briefly becomes involved with the chaos at the end of the Lacour Tournament, and fights those granted power by a mysterious individual known only as 'Grahf'.
  • Trapped near the grounds when the Guardian Temple is attacked, she flees inside with Rebecca and Dean, and in its depths receives a small measure of the Guardians' displeasure at her. Nonetheless, she is granted a Medium.
    • After this, she and her friends make haste across the battlefield, discovering a trio of Gears in the process.

Developments - Chapter 1, Act 2

  • Avril, along with her friends, learns of the history of the Metal Demons from the Baskar and the next steps -- the Metal Demons will surely attempt to reawaken their Mother, who will destroy the world. But to do so, they need to shatter the Guardian Statues, which can be protected from such a fate by being sealed such that the Metal Demons cannot touch them.
  • Repairing and suiting up the Gears takes time. Avril gets some help from Shalune, but conducts some of it on her own.
  • Through Dean, she learns of a particular problem that has befallen a small town and agrees to help out with exterminating the Reapers.
  • Further exploration of the name Johnny Appleseed proves troublesome, as leads appear to have petered out.
  • Until, that is, a job with another Drifter makes two things clear: one, that Avril has a rather large price on her head and two, Avril possesses a terrible power.
    • Which comes into play later when Kaguya, a Veruni, attempts to and succeed in shattering the Sea statue, and it is the awakening again of this power that may have saved Dean's life.
    • Dean eventually learns that the bounty is not because of anything she has done, but rather because someone in Elru is looking for her. Perhaps it might be family?
  • But before even that, she plays a role first in attempting to prevent the theft of the Arc Scepters, Virginia's restoration, and the fight against the Sword Dancer at Baskar Colony. Is there a connection here?
  • Ultimately her route takes her to the Pleasing Garden, and she does battle with Lady Harken in the heart of it all. She comes to realize without remembering anything what sort of person she had been. And then she gets transported to Lunar with everyone else.

Developments - Chapter 1, Act 3

  • The first while on Lunar is a chance for the trio to pause and reflect, and for Avril to both practice her burgeoning magic and relax without fear of a bounty.
  • It turns out that there are Guardian Statues on the moon as well as on Filgaia. Avril helps protect the Sky Statue.
  • After that, Dean finds an object that appears to hint at something mysterious. It appears to be a key to the lost land of Uzda Il-jam. Within its depths, they are forced to pacify a monstrous Hellion.
  • But eventually, the situation with Ida and others -- who have Hellionized -- takes up much of her focus. With effort, they are able to save Ida, Rosaline, and Jack, without endangering the nearby land.
  • Heading to Meribia, the trio spots some odd 'fireworks' near Azado; it soon becomes clear that the town is under attack! And then Sin attacks Azado and everything goes from bad to worse. They're able to find an Elw teleporter...

Developments - Chapter 1, Act 4

  • ...which returns them to a Filgaia in which Mother has newly awakened.
  • In time the route takes her and the others to Elru in order to quell the threat, but before anything else, Avril and others accompany Riesenlied to the village she once called home. A certain truth for Riesenlied is realized, but at what cost?
  • Another strange shrine, like the one in Ignas, is uncovered; Avril receives some partial answers and many more questions.
  • But before much more can be explored, here, Riesenlied is abducted right before them, in a Metal Demon ambush. Soon after this, the attack on New Arctica begins and it becomes clear that something terrible has been done to Riesenlied.
  • After the Photosphere is breached -- and after Riesenlied is forcibly transformed into a dragon -- Avril and her friends descend into the depths of the Photosphere, seeking to rescue the Tainted and hopefully, Riesenlied as well.
  • While others seek to reach Riesenlied's spirit, Avril does battle with the transformed Hyadean woman. In the end, a miracle occurs.
  • But while escaping the Photosphere, Avril encounters a person who knows her. Volsung, of the Veruni, and their leader in the absence of their queen. ...Who is none other than Avril herself. Battle is had against him, and tapping into her power, she is able to buy time for everyone and then herself, to escape the Photosphere.

Developments - Chapter 1, Epilogue

  • Avril grapples with this revelation, though truth be told she had begun to suspect she was not human.
  • Making a certain decision, she hires the Black Wolves to steal the mirror she had come into contact with in Mirapulse back from the Veruni, feeling it may have some connection to her and provide an answer. It doesn't make anything clearer, though she does understand intuitively that she made the mirror, once.
  • After that, she is one of those who encounters Vinsfeld Rhadamanthus in Elru... and is thus then transported to Lunar (or more accurately Spira) once again.

Developments - Chapter 2, Act 1

  • Spira proves to be less relaxing than the rest of Lunar had been. Avril sticks by the Outreach and lends assistance where possible, particularly in the wake of Operation Mi'ihen.
  • Eventually the growing war between Yevon and Althena's Guard reaches a head and Luca is attacked; Avril does battle with the Four Heroes and receives a shock to her psyche courtesy of Mauri. After this, she has a talk with none other than the Trial Knight which leaves further psychological wounding.
    • Talking with Riesenlied and Noeline does help matters somewhat but...
  • Encountering the situation in Macalania after all of this, she meets Ashley, an encounter that may in time be an important one.
  • But as the ice breaks, she plummets into the abyss below, and ends up in a group of quite strange bedfellows. In the depths of the shrine, the way back to Filgaia is had...

Developments - Chapter 2, Act 2

  • Avril, at last, tells her friends about what she fears about herself. She's given the option to quit her question, but ultimately opts not to.
  • Further encounters with Yue make the situation between them all the more strained, culminating in an attack on the Valeria Manor which Avril helps to stop... with a measure of her true powers as the Ice Queen on display.
  • An attack on Honeysday brings in the cavalry as far as the Outreach is concerned. Avril, in spite of the threats to herself (potentially) opts to assist.
  • Dean talks to his friends about the possibility that he might be able to become a Seer. Avril and Rebecca both express their fears but also encourage him.
  • To add to the already strange situation between her and Yue, Kaguya similarly speaks of matters that may result in her remaining Avril's foe... or possibly becoming an ally.

Powers and Abilities

  • Swordplay - Avril instinctively knows some basic forms for a school of swordplay unlike any currently known across Filgaia; where she learned it is uncertain (at this point the other salient question may be 'when'), but it most closely resembles the graceful ritualized forms of a dueling school rather than anything meant for the battlefield.
    • Absolute Zero - A strange and quite unique ARM that can alternate modes between a sword and a laser beam whip. It's definitely not at all a weapon from the current era. Due to synchronization, it appears that Avril is the only one who can use it to its full power. She believes (and she's probably right!) that she made it.
  • Original Medium: Sea - Avril is in possession of the Original Sea Medium, an artificial Medium that can draw forth the power of the Sea Guardian Lucadia; unlike copies, this can theoretically be used by anyone. Through this Medium, Avril can borrow Lucadia's power to heal and support herself and allies.
    • Medium Affinity - Avril can sense the presence of Original Mediums for some reason. OOCly speaking, this is an excuse for RP!
  • Manifestation - Avril can at times draw upon a part of her true power as the Lolithia. While this state is no longer entirely out of her control, it is quite taxing on her mentally and physically. Due to the nature of her gaining control over joining that state, it is possible there may be other complications in time.
  • Mediums - Unlike most of her kin, Avril can make use of the stone Mediums of the Baskar.
    • Ice Medium - Received from the Guardians themselves. This stone tablet bears the symbol of Aru Solatu, the Ice Guardian. With it, the Ice Guardian can be summoned, and even being in possession of it strengthens Avril somewhat.
    • Star Medium - Retrieved from atop Mount Colshrie. This stone tablet bears the symbol of Rigdobrite, the Star Guardian. Theoretically, with this, the Star Guardian can be summoned, though Avril has yet to make use of it.
  • Magic - Learned during a private epiphany Avril had post the battle in the Pleasing Garden ruins. As Veruni magic does, it bears some vague resemblance to Ether (as does all Veruni magic). So far, she's able to use it to manifest and control icy shards. When calling upon her true power, she also presents the ability to manipulate cold light.
  • Ancient Technology Intuition - As the ancient queen of the Veruni, Avril has intuitive knowledge about certain pieces of ancient mysterious technology, particularly some of the most ancient and most mysterious. Particularly of ancestral Veruni make.
    • Mirror of De Soto - A mirror that was kept in Mirapulse, valuable to the Veruni. It can only be used by Avril (since she is very much sure she made it). It acts essentially as a key to unlock a small bit of her powers with the power within it, and appears to aid some of her 'deja vu' episodes, however minutely. It also functions as a perfectly fine mirror.
  • Spiritual Awareness - Avril's got an extremely good sense for things beyond normal sensory perception. Seraphs and Malevolence, that includes you. Once again, the reason why is a Mystery. She has, she suspects, a connection with the Ley on some level.
  • Deja Vu? - Avril has amnesia and can't remember anything except a certain name. But Avril has the very, very odd sense, despite this, that she's met certain people before and has been certain places before. Indeed, she even has the sense that there are people she needs to speak to, or places she needs to be. This, she suspects, is a part of her apparent connection with the Ley.
  • Mysteriousness - it's extremely high

Tools

Self

Name Type Rating Effects Description
Sea Medium Agility 2 Quicken The Original Artificial Medium for the Sea Guardian, Lucadia. Not just for combat use -- Avril can briefly borrow grace and swiftness of the Sea Guardian through the Medium to tackle difficult jumps and move quickly.
Mirror of De Soto Wits 1 Cleanse The mysterious Mirror of De Soto, 'retrieved' from the Veruni. As well as being a perfectly functional mirror, it also appears to tap into the Ley by the power of the full moon... and allows Avril to access a little bit of her still-hidden abilities.
Remote Golem Override Brute 4 None Briefly summons forth a buried Golem's arm (or foot, or whatever) to smash or bash something, once. Even on Lunar.
Absolute Zero Beam Brute 3 Fanfare Uses the beam whip mode of Absolute Zero to effect against an obstacle.

Gear

Name Type Rating Effects Description
Turbocharger Agility 3 Rally Sometimes you absolutely need to move fast in a Gear. For that, there's always the TURBO button. Does a number on fuel, though.
Magic Converter Brute 2 Strengthen A subsystem for Gears that channels spells into Gear-sized (read: sufficiently large) counterparts. Excellent for getting rid of obstacles.
Gear Blade - Gambanteinn Combat 2 Stalwart Brandishes Skadi's massive Gear blade against a foe.

Relationships

Name Major Group Affinity Avril's thoughts
Dean Stark Wayside Outreach Affinity-5-cloud.png "You're important to me, in a way I cannot seem to define."
Fei Fong Wong Black Wolves Affinity-3-green.png "It has been difficult for you as well, has it not?"
Ida Everstead-Ray ARMS Affinity-3-green.png "The rest is up to you. But you need not walk this path alone."
Lunata Croze Caravan Kinship Affinity-3-green.png "You seem to be happier. I hope that it lasts."
Matilda Whitehead Odessa Affinity-3-green.png "Matilda... why?"
Noeline Wayside Outreach Affinity-4-blue.png "Thank you. I was able to tell them."
Riesenlied Wayside Outreach Affinity-4-blue.png "I am once again in your debt."
Rebecca Streisand Wayside Outreach Affinity-5-cloud.png "I'm so very glad that we were able to meet..."
Shalune Amira Caravan Kinship Affinity-3-green.png "Big Shal... really is quite incredible."
Cyre H. Lorentz Caravan Kinship Affinity-3-green.png "I do not know how we might repay you."
Ethius Hesiod Caravan Kinship Affinity-2-yellow.png "You also do not remember your past..."
Gwen Whitlock Vile Fiends Affinity-3-green.png "Thank you. For all you have done."
Lily Keil Black Wolves Affinity-2-yellow.png "We are akin, and yet, not at all alike. How very strange..."
Xantia Black Wolves Affinity-2-yellow.png "You truly do remind me of Dean."
Ambrosius Veruni Affinity-2-yellow.png "You are, as well... my kin."
Chuck Preston None Affinity-3-green.png "I am glad we were able to save your life. But, have we met somewhere before...?"
Greg Russelberg None Affinity-3-green.png "Whatever was it that happened to you, Greg? And... you seem familiar to me, somehow."
Kaguya Veruni Affinity-3-green.png "Will we meet again as foes, or as friends?"
Talia Caravan Kinship Affinity-2-yellow.png "It is difficult to change one's path, is it not?"
Id None Affinity-1-orange.png "You... how do you know me?"
Janus Cascade None Affinity-1-orange.png "I will not forgive you for tricking us or hurting Dean."
Elvis Veruni Affinity-2-yellow.png "I... am sorry. Once again."
Volsung Veruni Affinity-1-orange.png "...Those eyes..."
Vinsfeld Rhadamanthus Odessa Affinity-1-orange.png "I can understand your feelings, even your methods. But is this truly the only path forward for Filgaia?"
Lydia Seren Caravan Kinship Affinity-2-yellow.png "What has become of you?"
Ivan Caravan Kinship Affinity-2-yellow.png "You are... Talia's brother?"
Yue Rohay Veruni Affinity-3-green.png "I do not wish to fight against you."
Eleanor Klein ARMS Affinity-2-yellow.png "Is there something the matter? You often seem to have a headache when you are about me."
Ashley Winchester ARMS Affinity-2-yellow.png "There is something in you that... frightens me."

Manifestations

A record of 'manifestations', for possible future reference. It is a mystery.

Digger Discoveries

Does not include any outcomes where the winning result was 'a successful escape'

Chapter 1

What Where Status
Data readouts and a mysterious plaque Temple of Rejection Nothing for Avril but the weird sense of deja vu
Ancient papers Sacred Grounds of Linga To follow up on; Nisan may know more
Literature and social commentary from the Metal Demon War era Ruins of Memory Retrieved a few books at Ethius' insistence
Purple Participation Ribbon Lacour Coliseum Avril may already be a winner
A Useful Pendant Rujm el-Hiri Pendants claimed by Cyre and Fei
Guardian Mediums Guardian Temple Avril has claimed the Ice Medium
Gears The Battle Front Avril has a Gear now
Strange Coins Mountain Palace Did not take
Soldier's Tags Abandoned Frontier Town Dog tags claimed by Ida; to look into
Krosse Arms and Armor Eerie Farmhouse Returned to Krosse
Money and... Prestige? Field Expedition Accepted, but at what cost?
Metal-working Kit Eerie Farmhouse Taken
A waterwheel Wayside Waterway Perhaps reported back to Wayside
Cold hard cash Meribia Sewers Used to prevent the trio from sleeping on the streets
A basic book of spells Vane Trial Cave Using it to guide her magic practice
A hidden spring Forbidden Canyon Everyone had a nice bath
Spiritual empowerment Uzda Il-jam ~ Proving Grounds Now able to resist moderately powerful Domains
Dark insight The Umbral Mirror Gained a realization of a coming disaster
A trio of gems Emrys Mire Left in Ida's possession probably; seems to hint at a past disaster
Memory storage crystals Ruins of Altered Memory Crystals that seem to be able to store memories; they're empty
Broken pauldron Leck Mines - Flooded A Metal Demon's pauldron -- it may have belonged to Siegfried
Malevolent herbs Profane Grounds of Linga Strange, Malevolence-tinged herbs
Ever-burning torch Ruins of Altered Memory An apparently eternally-burning torch; taken by Fei
Ancient Remains Binding Depths of Serpent's Coils A strange skeleton
Seeds and information The Glint Mirage Ferroflora seeds... and some intriguing information
Original Artificial Medium of Life Lost Village Fereshte Rieselied found the Original Artificial Medium of Life
Original Artificial Mountain Medium Memorial Sanctuary Avril received the Original Artificial Mountain Medium (given to Dean)
A Well-made Crossbow Lost Village Fereshte A well-made Fereshte crossbow

Chapter 2

What Where Status
A letter from Burwich Mushroom Rock Road A mysterious letter from Burwich... what could it mean?
A Phoenix Down Mushroom Rock Road A strange feather that may save someone on the edge of death, it seems.
A Spell Converter The Thames A device that permits magic to be cast from inside a Gear. Installed into the Skadi.
A 1/35th scale collectable soldier Meria Boule Festival Games A collectable Guild Galad soldier figurine. Collect all twelve! (Dean probably has this)
An Ancient ARM Desecrated Shrine An ancient ARM, in great condition. Who has this now?? (Not Avril!)
Star Medium Mount Colshrie A stone Medium of Rigdobrite, now in Avril's possession.
Understanding of a mysterious technique Dhe Ruins of the Laboratory -Tishrei- Avril got equipped with Hadouken! ...maybe.
Pages from De Re Metallica Jarnvidr Mysterious pages of a mysterious book. Can these be understood at all?!
A Message from the Elw Capel Coffa A mysterious message! Also, Lily!
Another Ancient ARM Desecrated Shrine Another ancient ARM, also great condition. Eleanor took this one!
Lingering Presence Arastell Catacombs The presence of Valmar, perhaps?
Valuable data The Lifeweaver's Whorl Electronic media including information on biology, ecology, and so on. Claimed by Eleanor for ARMS -- was that the reason she wanted Avril to come along?

Weapon Stories

Absolute Zero

Chapter Story Unlock
1 Heart frozen, The Power of Teamwork
2 a gradual thawing for all eternity; smiling kindly, The World We'd Like To Live In
3 [Unknown] ????
4 [Unknown] ????

Skyfallen Gear Skadi

Chapter Story Unlock
1 How long have I walked, I wonder? The tracks are as a maze before me -- I know they have meaning but whatever that meaning may be is elusive. Yet, I’ll continue to walk until I meet my destination. Something That Can't Be Expressed
2 Where is my destination? Even the shape of it escapes me, but I know that I must reach it. There is someone I must meet. Should it take me to the ends of the world I will proceed on this path. A Little Light Reading
3 How much colder will it become? This path wears cold as ice. This path seems fit to consume me, erode who I am until nothing is left. But I cannot turn away. No matter how much colder it becomes. To Feel Such Regret
4 Long I’ve walked. My destination unknown. In defiance, I proceed across the ice and to the ends of the world. I have tracks I am following, as far as I must go. After all, I have someone I must meet.

I made a promise.

Das Rheingold

Gear Blade Gambanteinn

Chapter Story Unlock
1 [Unknown] ????
2 [Unknown] ????
3 [Unknown] ????
4 [Unknown] ????

Logs and Cutscenes

Chapter 1 Logs

Chapter 1, Act 1 Logs

Chapter 1, Act 2 Logs

Chapter 1, Act 3 Logs

Chapter 1, Act 4 Logs

Chapter 1, Epilogue Logs

Chapter 1 Cutscenes

Chapter 2 Logs

Chapter 2, Act 1 Logs

Chapter 2, Act 2 Logs

Chapter 2, Act 3 Logs

Chapter 2, Act 4 Logs

Chapter 2 Cutscenes